Multiple choice

Minamata disease is caused by the intake of food contaminated by which heavy metal compound?

  1. Copper

  2. Nickel

  3. Mercury

  4. Uranium

  5. Lead
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In 1952, the first incidents of mercury poisoning appear in the population of Minimata Bay in Japan, caused by consumption of fish polluted with mercury, bringing over 500 fatalities. Since then Japan has had the strictest environmental laws in the industrialised world.Minamata disease is an encephalopathy and peripheral neuropathy caused by daily intake of fish and shellfish highly contaminated by methylmercury.

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